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He declined many offers for the rabbinate, but in 1806 accepted a call to Bratislava, Austrian Empire (now capital of Slovakia). In Bratislava, he established a yeshiva, which was attended by as many as 500 pupils. Hundreds of these pupils became the rabbis of Hungarian Jewry. Among them were:
- Rabbi Yehuda Aszod (Yehudah Ya'aleh), (1794–1866)
- Rabbi Aharon Duvid Deutsch (Goren Duvid), (1813–1878)
- Rabbi Dovid Zvi Ehrenfeld (d. 1861), (son-in-law)
- Rabbi Shmuel Ehrenfeld (1835–1883), (Chasan Sofer) (grandson)
- Rabbi Aharon Fried (Tzel Hakesef), (1813–1891)
- Rabbi Chaim Joseph Gottlieb of Stropkov.
- Rabbi Menachem Katz, (1795–1891)
- Rabbi Yisroel Yitzchok Aharon Landesberg, (1804–1879)
- Rabbi Hillel Lichtenstein (Kolomea) (Maskil El Dol), (1815–1891)
- Rabbi Chaim Zvi Mannheimer (Ein Habdoilach), (1814–1886)
- Rabbi Yehuda Modrin (Trumas Hacri), (1820–1893)
- Rabbi Menachem Mendel Panet (Maglei Tzedek), (1818–1884)
- Rabbi Meir Perles, (1811–1893)
- Rabbi Avrohom Schag (Ohel Avrohom), (1801-1876)
- Rabbi Dovid Schick (Imrei Duvid) (died: 1890) brother of Moshe Schick
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- Rabbi Moshe Schick (Maharam Schick), (1807-1879)
- Rabbi Akiva Yosef Schlesinger, (1838-1922)
- Rabbi Avraham Yehuda Hacohen Schwartz (Kol Aryeh), (1824-1883)
- Rabbi Shimon Sidon (Shevet Shimon) (1815 - 1891), Rabbi of Cifer and Trnava
- Rabbi Aharon Singer, (c. 1806-1868)
- Rabbi Avrohom Shmuel Binyamin Sofer (Ktav Sofer), (1815-1872) (son)
- Rabbi Chaim Sofer (Machne Chaim), (1822-1886)
- Rabbi Naftali Sofer (Matei Naftali), (1819-1899)
- Rabbi Shimon Sofer, (1821-1883) (son)
- Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Spitzer (Tikun Shloime), (1811–1893), (son-in-law), Rabbi of Schiff Shul in Vienna
- Rabbi Yoel Unger (Teshuvas Rivo), (1800–1886)
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